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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Biting off Threads.
Many ladies use their artificial teeth as
Substitutes for scissors, and such use of
them soon renders repair necessary.
When told that they should not bite
threads with them, they are surprised.
Rut they their should be taught not such to use
even natural teeth for pur¬
poses. But few think that in biting oft
a thread the entire muscular force of the
jaws in use is concentrated into the small
space measured by the diameter of a
thread. Besides, thread after thread is
applied to the sam*i place on the teeth,
and thus the enamo' is soon broken there.
How to Boil Potatoes.
No doubt every woman who pretends
to cook thinks that if there is one thing
she can do well it i.i to boil potatoes; yet
it is very rarely that one has the privi
lege of eating a palatable boiled potato,
It is either broken into scraps or hard at
the centre. An evenlv-boile l white po
tato is a treat The New York Pod is
contains the following recipe, which
worth trvin«r- “Let them be carefully
rubbed with a hard brush, disturbing
neither the eyes nor the skin. Helect
them of equal size, and put them in a
saucepan, with a tablespoonful of salt,
and sufficient water to cover them,
When boiled five minutes pour off the
hot water, and replace with cold, and
half a teaspoonfu) of salt. The reason
for this innovation is that, the
heart of the potato being peculiarly
hard the outside is generally done long
before it is softened By chilling its
exterior with cold water the heat of the
vegetable; first boiling the strikes to the centre of the
force gradually increases
when the water boils again; by the time
the outside has recovered from its chill,
the equilibrium is restored, and the whole
potato is evenly done. Potatoes must boil
steadily, with the covers on, three-quar
ters of an hour, gently tested with a fork,
if they bo not cracked ; when done, drain
them dry, closely put a clean doth upon them,
cover with the lid, and let the
saucepan stand until tlie dinner is ready
to be served; then take out each one
separately with a spoon, that they may
not be broken in their floury state.”
Recipes.
Tea Cakes. —Bub and together of four tea
spoonfuls of butter one cup sugar,
add one well-beaten egg, one teaspoon¬
ful of cream and two cups of flour, into
which has been sifted two table spoon¬
fuls of baking powder. Bake in small pans
and eat while fresh.
Green _ „ Pea „ Soup -Pour „ pounds , of t
beef, one half peck of gieen peas. u
the beef ...to small pieces sn-lboil slowly
for an hour and a half. Hall an hour
before serving add the shelled peas sea
son with salt and pepper and add a little
thickening; strain through a colander be
fore serving.
Snow' Pudding. — Soak one-lmlf box
of gelatine in a little cold water, then add
one pint of boiling water, the juice of
one lemon, and two cups of sugar and
let cool. Beat the whites of three eggs
to a stiff froth, add to the gelatine and
beat together until quite light, put into
a mold and place 1 on ice to harden.
Make a oustiird of the yolks of three
eggs; let it become perfectly cold, and
when the jelly is turned from the mold
pour the custard around it and serve.
Broiled Fresh Cod. —When the fish
is thoroughly cleaned, wipe dry and
open from head to tail, and remove the
backbone carefully; salt well and put in
a cool place for an hour before cooking,
as the flesh becomes bright firm of by coals; so doing;
broil over a tire place
the inside to the lire first, then when
turned over skin sale to the coals, all
the juices are retained. When thorough
ly cooked, place ou a warm platter, and
dress with butter and bits of parseley.
Mackerel are excellent when prepared
and cooked in the same manner.
Shoulder ok Mutton Broiled.—
riace the mutton over a bright tiro of
coals; let it broil gently, placing the in
side to the tire first; cover it w ith a tiu;
when nearly done through turn it. Let
it brown nicely; when it is done place and it
ou a hot platter, sprinkle with salt
each; pepper, butter allowing about a teaspoonful of
it freely; turn it once or
twice in the seasoning; turn the inside
down. Served hot, with boiled hominy
or potatoes, it makes a nice breakfast
dish. It is well to have the shoulder boned
before broiling. A breast of lamb can
be broiled in the same way.
Stewed Rhubarb. —To one pound
rhubarb, cut in pieces of one or two
inches in leugth, allow one-half pound
loaf sugar and ready the grated rind of a lem¬ of
on. Have a large saucepan
boiling water, throw the rhubarb in and
st ir the pieces down with a ivooden or
silver spoon. Put the cover on, and for
three or four minutes it may be left, then
again the cover left taken until off;, it the done. rhubar It > is not
is may >o
quietly turned in the sauce pan with too
spoon so as not to break the rhu >ni >.
I he moment it boils it softens, and m
three minutes or less time according to
whether the rhubarb is old or young
strain it off quickly with the cover tilted
wn the sauce pan. U- it si,], from he
saucepan into a pio dish; spnnk c the
oaf sugar and grated lemon over it, and
leave until cold.
West Point.
North and east the I omt ... is hemmed , ,
} . n by t ^ ie mighty river, west and *outu
t)y the rock-ribbon Highlands 1 he
plateau, little by little, has been lev.cu
**nd graded, until to day .it is a bi ud,
beautiful, grass-grown plain, bounded on
the west by the cosy homes of the officers
»»<1 professors, on the south by the
stately barracks, tne Grecian grim, old-fashioned chapel and
“Academic,” the
the domed turrets of the Library. Skirt
"'g the precipitous river banks, a broad,
graded road encloses the plateau on the
north and east, and others, as level and
carefully kept, border it on west and
south, and nearly Insect italong the meri
dian. Covered half with of the well-cropped, “plain’ is tmf, <le
western
v °fcd to infantry drills; the batteries
ft hd the crunching hoofs of the horses
are limited to the gravel of the eastern
half. All around are the rocky heights,
trimmed with pine and lir anti cedar,
with here and there a peep at the stony
parapet of some old redoubt or nattery
thrown up in the days o' the Revolution,
square built hostelry, once and for
years known as Boos, stands perched at
the northeast limit of the plain, btatues
bronze or marble gleam here and there
aiu *d the foliage, and tell of deeds of
heroism and devotion on the part of the
sons of.the old academy. The tall white
s,a ^ glistens against the dark background
°f the Highlands, and brilliant throws to colors the
breeze, high ov r all, the
°t the Stars and Stripes; and on the
easternmost verge of the broad plateau
lies the camp ground, the summer home
of the Corps of Cadets.
Laid out in mathematical regularity,
with well-graveled “color-line,” pathways, and shaded sentry by
posts and
beautiful trees, the encampment, like
everything else at West Point, is so ex¬
quisitely trim and neat as to leave little
lesemblance to the “tented field” as seen
inactualservicc0 n the frontier. The white
^nts ^ g] eanl j n accurate ranks as though
„ erc itched 1)y , lid of the .. stra ight- the
edffe ", « ru ] e> Farthest to the west are
« and visitor8 . tcnt8 . thcn c()mes an
,{ between them and the color
wllic b tUe arms are stacked
every bright dav. It is in this space
t ], e camp "ceremonies—guard inspections mounting,
dress parade, and the weekly
—take place. Immediately behind the
color line are the tents of four companies, with
two inward facing rows to each, a
broad alley, known as the “general
parade,” separating the right and left
win<rs "west The perpendicularly company streets run east
to the color
and the tents of the cadet otneers
are pitched looking respective west companies, along the
s , roc ts of the-
Behind the row's of company
tents, and opposite the right and left of
camp, are the larger domiciles of those
cadet magnates, the adjutant and quar
termaster. Back still further are the
double tents of the four army officers who
are immediate commanders and instruc
tors of the four companies: and behind
them all, at the rear of camp, is the Cadets. big
1 “marquee” of the Commandant of
Dotted about the rear of camp are the
little tents occupied by the drum boy
“orderlies,” the boot-blacks, varnishers,
etc., and around them all, day and posted night,
paces the chain of sentries, which,
in mid-June, is never removed until the
simultaneous fall of every tent on the
‘~8th of August. -Harpers Magazine.
He only is advancing in life whose
j j ] ieart j s getting brain softer, quicker, whose whose blood
warmer, whose
spirit is entering into living peace. And
the men who have this life in them are
; the true lords or kings of the earth—they
and t hev onlv.
The Crown Prince of Italy is a very
clever young man. He is only eighteen
years of age. but can speak fluently five
or six languages. He can talk strategy
with a general or science with a scientist.
A Dog’s Scent.
At a mce ting of the English Linnten
Society a paper was read on “The Sense of
g me n j n Dogs.” in which some experi
nients with a setter dog were detailed » i
w hieh showed, for one thing, that while j
a very small part \ of the surface of a boot
ig 8ufficient 0 make a trail which the
au j ma i can trace, i’ the scent is not able to
penetrate [ a sing ° e 1;iyer 0 f brown paper,
t wag found ^ t oo, ! that the setter was'
rcad t0 bs ? uid( d by inference as well
lW * {. t on and that the act of in
fcre instantaneous. The exper
ime nts aho showed that not only Shales the feet
but the wWe bod of a man a
peculiar or individual odor which a amid dog
can recognize as that of his master
a crowd of people, and that the individ¬
ual quality of this odor can be recognized
at great distances to windward, or in calm
weather, in any direction.
An obelisk of Baineses II, TT of , the 19th 1Qf i
dynasty, has been set up at destroyed Borne in
memory of the Italian soldiers
at Dogali by the Abyssmians. Rome It in was the
known to have existed in
last century, but was refound only in
1883. Curiously enough, Raineses II
was a conqueror of the very people Dogali. who
committed the recent massacre at
Many People Refuse to Take Cod
Liver Oil on account of its unpleasant taste,
This difficulty has been overcome in Scott’s
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos
phites. It being as palatable as milk, and the
most valuable remedy known for the treatment
of Consumption, Scrofula and Bronchitis,
General Debility, Wasting Diseases of Chil¬
dren, Chronic Coughs and Colds, lias caused
physicians in all parts of the world to use it.
Physicians report our little patients take it
with pleasure. Try Scott’s Emulsion and be
convinced.
Chicago claims a loss of $12,000,000 in the
building trades from strikes.
* radically * * * Piles, fistula? Book rupture of particulars and strict¬ 10
ure cured.
cents in stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
for In New nightly York rental they hire out wedding $7 trosseaus $40.
a varying from to
“Throw Physic to the Dogs"
When it is the old-fashioned blue mass, blue
pill “Pleasant sort, and insist on using Dr. Pierce’s
cal Purgative being small, Pellets,” a modern medi¬
luxury, sugar-coated principles of granules, certain
containing herbs, the active which will be found
roots and and to
contain as much cathartic pow r er as any of the
old-fashioned, violent, drastic larger pills, The without the latter’s
effects. pellets operate
thoroughly manently healthy but harmlessly, action of establishing the stomaeh a per¬ and
bowels, and as an anti-bilious remedy are un
equaled.
Flower mission work is the fashionable char
itable craze in New York this season.
“A little tire is quickly trodden out
Which, Procrastination being suffered, rob rivers cannot quench. but by ”
may you of time,
increased diligence you can make up the loss;
but if it rob you of life the loss is irremediable.
If your health is delicate, your appetite tickle,
your whole sleep being broken, your mind depressed, your
seriously diseased, out of sorts, in depend such on it you are
ail cases Dr.
Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will
speedily effect a genuine, radical cure—make
a new man of you and save you from the tor¬
tures of a lingering disease.
Mr. Corcoran, the Washington, D. C., philan¬
thropist is recovering, but can never w r alk.
Old pill boxes are spread over the land by
the thousands after having been emptied by
to contend with. Too much strong medicine,
jS'ffi'nkS Su ‘JSfZu arising oTdrS^andt nfiofdered
condition curing of tin- the ills from a
liver, kidneys, stomaeh and
°" es ”
a Physician From Iowa,
.Hr. H. Munk, Nevada, Iowa, states: Have
all the medicines I have ever seen for the bow
els, Dr. Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial is by far
lht ’ best,
Daughters, Wives and -Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet Dr. J. on B. Female Marchisi, Diseases, Utica, free;
securely sealed. N.Y.
if afflicted with All druggists sore eyes, sell use it Dr. 25c. Thompson’s
Eye-water. at a bottle,
No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
Tired Languid Dull
Expresses the condition of thousands of people at
this season. The depressing effects of the warm
weather and that tired feeling are quickly over¬
come by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It gives
strength in plaee of weakness, gives tone to every
organ, creates an appetite and purifies the blood.
Give it a trial now.
“I have been troubled for many years with violent
headache. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me so much good
that I feel like a new being. I earnestly recommend
Hood's Sarsaparilla to all who suffer Mfith headaches."
—Mbs. E. Satchkll, Gates Aveuue. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell Mass.
SOO Doses One Dollar
Throw the Powder Overboard,
Were thrilling The words, spoken the at a time of great
danger. lives of all on vessel depended
on prompt action. Your life may be blessed
and prolonged by the prompt use of Dr. Har¬
ter’s Iron Tonic for that blood trouble.
The best and surest Remedy for Core of
all diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Sidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation,
Bilious Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent influence of
•rrrtiiia
It Is pleasant to the taste, tones up the
system, restores and preserves health*
It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to
prove beneficial, both to old and young.
s a Blood Purifier it is superior to all
others. Sold everywhere at $1.00 a bottle.
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Itwfrin n h'n
Lecture on l
“ROUGH ON RATS."
i!
iw,
^raid anything useful containing^? We throughout older beads your ob¬
future special (?) careers. ‘Rough’ness,’
ject to its
DON’T FOOL insect 2S2S
infutileefforts with pow¬
der, borax or what not, used at
random all over the house to get
rid of Roaches, Water-bugs, Beet¬
les. For 8 or 8 nights snriukle
“Rough and or Rjrrs” down the arypowder,L sink, drain , hT
about pipe. First thing in the morning wash it all
away down the sink, drain pipe, when all the
insects from garret to cellar will disappear.
The secret is m the fact that wherever insects
are in the house, they must BA HIJAvIlEd A A|1C$
drink during Rats, the Mice, night. Bed-bugs, _ Flies, Beetles.
Clears out Raw,” is sola all around the
“Rough on dime, is the most extensively
world, in every the largest sale of
advertised article and has of globe. any
ot its kfad on the face the
Kmt DESTROYS Vugs, POTATO Vines, etc. OllGS table
Potato Insects on well shaken, ,a in keg
spoonful of and the powder, applied with sprinkling a poE
ofwater.
. size.
—CLEARS OUT
BED BUGS,
FLIES.
Roaches, ante,water-hugs, moths, rats, nrfoe,
sparrows, jack rabbits, squirrels, gophers. 15c.
MARLIN REPEATING
TRIFLE
Gnaran* BEST IN THB
teed perfectly and ab»olutely ~ WORLD!
curate w
safe. Hade in all sixes for
large BALLARD or small game.
Gallery, Hunting and Target Rifles. „
r^nd for Illustrated Catalogue. ^
purlin Fire Arose Co., 5 ew Uavcn, Conn.
J. P. STEVENS & BRO.
JEWELERS. Atlanta, Ga.
laa# far CMalagns.
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Cl.OVKR BUILDING,
Washington, D. C,
ROOT BEER
ling, wholesome C. E. HIRES. bevernge. 48 N. Sold De!a. by druggists; Ave.. Phila.. mailed Pa.
for 35c.
Blair’s Pilis. Great English Gout and
! Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Box, 34; round, 14 Pill*.
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VriWITB Dr. J- Stephen*, Lebanon. Ohio*
m f to SS u. day. Samples worth il.50, FREE.
Jre ** ~j| Lines Brewster not Safety under the Rein horse’s Holder feet. Co., Holly, Write Mich.
n DAT a T C CIlTb M T Q obtained by E. H.GEL* nsh
SSTON & CO.,
| jn g t on, I>. C. Send for our book of instructions.
OPIUM Habit Cured. Treatment sent on triaL
Humane Remedy Co.. LaFayette, lod.
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